In an effort to help combat the February greys I'm participating in Yellow Week, hosted by Erin of House on Hill Road (I highly recommend taking a look to see what other people are doing). These are some tulips we picked out at the grocery store on Saturday. I love the way they've opened up. We've got them sitting in the middle of the kitchen table where they are easy to see as we go about our everyday things. There is another view of them (from the night before - not quite so open) in my 365 set on Flickr.

No, it's not mould.

A while ago I put some cuttings from my African Violets in little pots of soil to see what would happen. I've been keeping an eye on them and giving them water whenever the pots felt dry. They seemed a little secure for leaves stuck in dirt and I was hopeful that something was happening but I didn't have any proof until last week.


One of the pots now sports itty-bitty leaves at the base of each cutting. I think they look so sweet.

Yesterday was a beautiful fall day (today was not - we got both rain and snow). Rob said there was lots of frost on the car when we were getting ready for work so I grabbed my camera on my way out the door; I love the look of frost in the sunshine. These pictures are from spots along my walk to work.


Monday had been quite moist and the frost was especially thick. In some places the ice crystals were very long and visible. All the puddles were frozen over too. It was a lovely time to be outside; the air was so crisp and there was almost no wind so the lake was very still and mirror like. It stayed that way all day.


All the birch trees around here have turned gold. We took a drive a little way along the highway before dinner. The landscape nearly glowed in the evening sun. I didn't take any pictures from the car but I do have one I liked from my walk back along the path to meet Rob after work.


Happy Autumn everyone.